Donald MacKay – List of Publications

The following is a list of publications by the late Donald MacKay, formerly of the Physics Dept., Kings College, London, and subsequently Granada Research Professor of Communication, University of Keele. The list was prepared by Donald at some date in the sixties, and one copy was given to Alex Andrew. There are many later publications, since Donald remained active till his death on February 6, 1987. His later work was more specifically directed to neuroscience and in one of his obituaries the department he headed in Keele University is referred to as the Department of Communication and Neuroscience. Obituaries can be found in Nature, 2nd April 1987 (by H.C. Longuet-Higgins) and in Kybernetes, 16, no. 3, p. 189, 1987 (by A.M. Andrew).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

D.M. MacKay, B.Sc., Ph.D.

This list does not include a number of Admiralty reports, semi-popular articles, broadcast talks, reviews, and the like. The Admiralty reports dealt entirely with electronics.

The Science of Communication – A Bridge between Disciplines.Inaugural Lecture, University College of North Staffordshire, 1961.[Inaugural lecture as Granada Research Professor of Communication; the College later became Keele University.]

Anomalous Responses as Clues to Visual Organization.Proc. Conf. On Cerebral Systems and Cognitive Logic. (Calif. Inst. of Tchnology) 17,*****
[Part of this entry is damaged; words “systems” and “cognitive” are partly guessed]

The use of behavioural language to refer to mechanical processes.Brit. J. Phil. of Sci.1962 (In Press)

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